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CAJames Seasoned Member "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 2020	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #600 - 08/02/24 at 16:33:39 I bought the Micheal Tilson Thomas Gershwin box years ago, for the orchestral music like Rhapsody in Blue and American in Paris, which is excellent. But then I heard Sarah Vaughn singing, and wow, it is special. On CD.
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CAJames Seasoned Member "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 2020	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #601 - 08/06/24 at 20:40:39 Mitsuko Uchida leans towards the brooding and dramatic in her recordings of some of Schubert's lesser known sonatas. On CD.
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CAJames Seasoned Member "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 2020	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #602 - 08/07/24 at 19:39:49 Hummel was a contemporary of Beethoven, and he wrote a bunch of really good piano music to support his day job, which was as a piano virtuoso. When I first starting collecting classical music there was almost no Hummel to be had but the situation has changed for the better recently. On CD.
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Re: Classical Music Thread
Reply #603 - 08/08/24 at 03:06:49

We've batted around and are back at the top of the order: Beethoven's 1st. I choose Otto Klemperer, who may be better known as the father of Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heros than as one of the great conductors of the 20th century. His performances are typically called "granitic" as in of or pertaining to granite. And I've never understood how that applies to music. The thing I find most characteristic is the performance always has forward momentum, even if it is on the slow side, which Klemperer's often are. And he makes Beethoven's 1st every bit as epic as the 5th or 7th.

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Reply #604 - 08/08/24 at 18:18:29

Besides Schubert, the other great "unfinished" symphony is Bruckner's 9th. Like Schubert it ends with the Adagio, but unlike Schubert the finale is best described as apocalyptic.

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Stanisaw Skrowaczewski's cycle of the Bruckner Symphonies is one of my favorites. Esp. because the Rundfunk Sinfonie Saarbrucken sounds every bit as impressive as the Berlin Philharmonic.

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CAJames Seasoned Member "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 2020	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #605 - 08/09/24 at 20:14:47 There are plenty of ways to interpret Mozart's Haydn Quartets. The Alban Berg Quartet bills their approach as "the precision of the Julliard plus Viennese gemütlichkeit", and it is a great way to do it. 14/44 FLAC download I like the young ABQ from their Teldec collection.
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CAJames Seasoned Member "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 2020	Re: Classical Music Thread Reply #606 - 08/10/24 at 19:35:57 Recent acquisition: On CD. I'm not a big opera fan, but if I'm going to opera I like Wagner more than most. This isn't great Wagner singing, but Barenboim does a great job with the orchestral part (which matters a lot) and for like a buck a CD this is a great deal.
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Re: Classical Music Thread
Reply #607 - 08/11/24 at 18:45:41

Leos Janacek was the next big thing in Czech music after Dvorak.

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The Many Passions of Leos Janacek is an interesting mashup from his long and somewhat confusing life and career. From early stuff that is a lot like watered down Dvorak to the later masterpieces when he finally figured out how to mix Czech lyricism with his unique and uniquely modern voice.

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Reply #608 - 08/12/24 at 19:59:03

I'll tell anyone who asks that Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is not only the greatest ballet every written, but the best piece of classical music written since Mahler died, YMMV. Prokofiev also wrote music for a Cinderella ballet, and the music is also excellent.

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Andre Previn does a great job balancing the drama and dance aspects of the piece.

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